Stephen Burckhardt

Award-Winning Western Author

Due to new and changing regulations I am adding this information to my website for anyone who might be accessing this site from the European Union (EU). To learn your rights regarding your personal data, please click on the title above and it will take you to the EU information page regarding the GDPR.

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As for this site, this web service does use cookies to access visitor data. To view what cookies are being used, click on the word "secure" in the browser search bar of your web browser next to this page's address. A drop down menu should appear. Scroll down and click on "cookies." This should show you a list of all active cookies being used while you are on this site. If you choose to, you can click on any of these cookie programs and then click block.

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I also use Google analytics to find out information about the people who visit my site, including what country my site is being accessed from, how long the person is on my site, and what pages they visit. I have enabled IP anonymization. This means that google with never store your complete IP address from my site.

The only actual personal data, such as your name and email address, are collected and stored only if you chose to provide me with this information by signing up for "my posse" or the Members Only page. When you sign up for either of these groups, I store the following information in my contacts list: your name, email address, and the last date you accessed my site. I use this information for newsletter and email delivery. I have not and will not ever share or sell my contact list without written consent from the individuals on my list.

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If you would like to receive a copy of the information the web service has collected from you through my site.

I can request this information for you. You will need to click here and send me a photo of a valid government issued ID, such as your passport or, in the US, a "Real ID" driver's license, to prove it is your personal information you are requesting. Please allow seven to ten business days for this process.

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If you would like to have your information deleted from my website.

I can request your information to be deleted from this website. You will need to click here and send me a photo of a valid government issued ID, such as your passport or, in the US, a "Real ID" driver's license, to prove it is your personal information you are requesting to be deleted. Please allow seven to ten business days for this process.

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My Promise to you.

I do not use any information you provide for anything other than to promote this website and my books to you. I rarely ever send more than three newsletters per month. You will get the occasional blog post notices and perhaps a contest notice from time to time. I do not fill your email inbox with endless notices or advertise anything other than my books. Should you ever get tired of receiving this information and wish to stop my emails, click here to request to be removed from the mailing lists. Please allow seven to ten business days for this process.

Additional Privacy Policy Information

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By submitting your personal information to our website, you, our site visitor, agree to accept and allow the follow:

We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. We collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); comments, feedback, reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

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We collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated herein.

To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;

To create a database of personal and non-personal Information, which we may use to provide and improve our respective services

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Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform allowing us to provide product information and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

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We may contact you to notify you regarding your subscriptions to our account, to troubleshoot problems with your subscription, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our products, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you using any contact information you have provided us; email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

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It's important to note that third-party services, such as Google Analytics or other applications offered through the Wix App Market, placing cookies or utilizing other tracking technologies through Wix´s services, may have their own policies regarding how they collect and store information. As these are external services, such practices are not covered by the Wix Privacy Policy.

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There are two types of cookies used by applications in use on this site:

Session (Transient) cookies: These cookies are erased when you close your browser, and do not collect information from your computer. They typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user.

Persistent (Permanent or Stored) cookies: These cookies are stored on your hard drive until they expire (i.e. they are based on a set expiration date) or until you delete them. These cookies are used to collect identifying information about the user, such as Web surfing behavior or user preferences for a specific site.

Unsubscribing

If you do not wish to be subscribed to our services anymore, please contact us via email to be removed from out database at Stephen.burckhardt@aol.com, subject line: unsubscribe. Please allow at least two business days for changes to take effect.

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We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

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If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us at Stephen.burckhardt@aol.com.